Articles: "Awful Calamities now upon Us": the Civil War in Fountain Green, Illinois; "New Notions and Wild Vagaries": Elizabeth Packard's Quest for Personal Liberty; Death and the Maidens: The Newberry Sisters and the Marriage Question; The...

Illinois is prominent in the early history of the West. Concise descriptions of places, historical facts, and biographies of living persons with close relations to the state. Illustrations include portraits, maps and buildings.

Articles: A Reinterpretation of Black Strategies for Change at the Chicago Worlds Fair, 1933-1934; The Northwest Ordinance: A Bicentennial Souvenir; Reports of a Downstate Independent: Excerpts front the Letters of Lewis Omer to Allan Nevins,...

Going back to its first sermon preached in 1837 and known as the Zion Evangelical Church, this was the first church erected in DuPage County in 1841. In 1910 it merged with College Chapel Church of North Central College. In 1946 it took on the...

Articles: Oliver Dennett Grover's Thy Will Be Done; Dorothea Dix and the Founding of Illinois' First Mental Hospital; Leonard Swett: Lincoln's Legacy to the Chicago Bar; Joliet's Enterprising Universalists: the Church and the City in Late...

Thirty chapters describe the main facts of DuPage County's history from the earliest settlements and political organization up to 1913. Biographical sketches of prominent people, portraits, family histories, township histories, an index of...

Photocopies of newspaper articles compiled by St. Charles Public Library staff. Organized alphabetically by business name. Dates currently referenced: 1878-1991. Commentary and notes by Library staff included.

The history of DuPage County is covered through the exploration period, Indian life, pioneer settlement, the Black Hawk War, the Civil War and the development of governing bodies, schools, churches and businesses. There are histories of each...